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Ruy Teixeira

Ruy Teixeira is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. His most recent book is The Optimistic Leftist: Why the 21st Century Will Be Better Than You Think.

 

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Response: Selling Progress in Appalachia

The left cannot ignore strong conservatism on social issues.
Ruy Teixeira

Response: Tax the Rich

Tax the Rich It is difficult to find fault with David Grusky’s contention that taxing the rich is not sufficient to remedy inequality. I applaud his call to expand the range of...
Ruy Teixeira

Response: Restore Public Trust

Robert Pollin convincingly demonstrates that full employment has huge social benefits and can plausibly be attained and maintained by sound policymaking. And he rightly ends his essay with a question: is there...
Ruy Teixeira

Response: Response to How Can Democrats Win

To put it mildly, I don’t agree with Perlstein’s essay. Indeed, I hardly know where to start disagreeing. But start I must. So let’s consider the question of party identification. Contrary to...
Ruy Teixeira

Response: The Left’s Problem

The left has always had a problem with human nature. If not positing an intrinsically altruistic human nature, the left has reassumed a blank slate upon which to inscribe cooperative, work-for-the-common-good values....
Ruy Teixeira

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